Jewish groups have taken lead roles in drawing attention to China\’s policies and specifically sought to spotlight the country\’s record in advance of this summer\’s Olympic Games in Beijing. Yet it appears as if China will suffer no significant international sanction when the games open Aug. 8
An interfaith coalition — organized by a Jewish group — is planning to demonstrate next week in Postville, Iowa, in support of justice for workers and comprehensive immigration reform.
The news that the two Israeli soldiers abducted by Hezbollah in July 2006 were returned to Israel deceased prompted an outpouring of sympathy by U.S. Jews and a pledge to continue fighting for Gilad Shalit\’s release
A disgraced American rabbi with a tangled history of alleged sexual misdeeds is relaunching his career as a spiritual mentor and backtracking from an apparent confession he signed two years ago.
An Orthodox social justice group dropped its boycott of the embattled kosher meat producer Agriprocessors, saying the company is \”beginning to take significant steps\” to address claims of worker mistreatment at its plant in Postville, Iowa.
Just days before they are due to consider a range of motions on the Middle East at their biennial convention, the Presbyterian Church USA has released a document on combating anti-Jewish ideas. But Jewish organizational leaders say the statement is \”infused with the very bias\” it purports to condemn.
Speaking out for the first time, the owner of Agriprocessors was visibly angered by the flood of charges that have imperiled his business, the country\’s largest kosher slaughterhouse
Just days after the Conservative movement became the only Jewish denomination to speak out against alleged worker abuse at the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States, the movement\’s legal authorities voted to recommend that Jewish businesses pay their employees a living wage.
Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid
As the country\’s largest kosher slaughterhouse scrambles to stay open after a federal raid, former workers at the plant — many of them still fearful of retribution from government authorities — have begun to tell their stories, revealing new details of conditions there.
Agents in the May 12 raid at the Agriprocessors plant in this small northeastern Iowa town arrested 389 illegal workers, among them 18 juveniles.
In recent days, former employees have been painting a picture of a company indifferent to federal laws prohibiting slaughterhouses from employing workers younger than 18 and where workers frequently were pressured to exchange sexual favors for preferred treatment.
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